I hired into a five state company, SWBT ran by Ed Whitaker long ago. It was a great company that was ran more like a utility company, putting customer service and quality at the forefront. As we merged with and or purchased PAC Bell, Ameritech, Bell South, SNET, AT&T it seems we took on more debt, c-appy network, bad labor agreements and no leadership. Now we only care about stock price and the bottom line, this corporation is unrecognizable to me. The Time Warner and DirecTV acquisitions following our failed merger with T-Mobile have pushed us to the brink of destruction.
Maintaining our facilities including infrastructure and even our buildings is expense so that’s out, employees are a liability so they need to go and again the only thing that matters is our stock price.
My apologies to all of you that worked for the companies SWBT has purchased and or merged with but this is a complete disaster.
AT&T is now this monster of a corporation ran by egotistical narcissist gobbling up more and more as we just go further in debt trying to buy success and innovation. Leadership is more concerned with their next webinar instead of taking care of our facilities, customers or employees.
This won’t end well for any of us.